LETTER: ALS about Women's Clubs.
Autograph Letter Signed
Howe, Julia Ward. Autograph Letter Signed “Julia Ward Howe” to “Sir.” West Boston, Massachusetts: February 19, 1899; one 5 x 8-inch leaf; folded to make four pages; writing on two sides; split at the central fold of the integral pages.
Howe replies to an earlier letter “of Feb. 4,” voicing her thoughts on an upcoming lecture she was scheduled to deliver,
...it is not my intention to read from any mss at the anniversary of the Woburn Club. I intend to speak, rather informally, of the studies which a Women's Club may best pursue, recommending that these would open to matters of primary interest, such as ethics, economics, and above all, the education and influence further to the training of young people in the family.
Howe was “much in demand” as a speaker at such women’s conferences and lectures in the later years of her life. She embarked on numerous tours of the United States and founded women’s clubs in different parts of the country, with an aim of “reaffirm[ing] the old values of American life which she felt were being neglected in the acquisitive Gilded Age” (Notable American Women, Vol 2).
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